USD: The best there is in San Diego

At least there is one success story this baseball season in San Diego.

The University of San Diego is a sure bet to advance to the NCAA Regionals for the second straight year.

This comes after both the men’s and women’s basketball teams at USD made the NCAA Tournament; with the men pulling off a huge upset of the University of Connecticut.

Across town, San Diego State can’t even get into an NCAA Tournament postseason event. Gee, which school has a better athletics program?

The USD baseball team (39-15) will host the West Coast Conference Championship Series for the second consecutive season this weekend against Pepperdine. This will be a best-of-three series to determine who will get the WCC's automatic bid into the NCAA postseason.

Friday's game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. inside of Cunningham Stadium. Saturday's game is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. and if necessary Sunday's game will begin at 1 p.m.

Win or lose, USD is going to be in postseason play. There seems to be a trend here!

USD is the real deal in San Diego college sports

Has the University of San Diego surpassed San Diego State in athletics, or what?

Now we have both the men’s and women’s basketball teams from USD as automatic qualifiers for their respective NCAA Tournaments.

Put that on top of the fact that USD hosted an NCAA Regional last year in baseball – at Tony Gwynn Stadium, no less, on the SDSU campus – and it tells you who has the real college sports program in San Diego.

Sure, the Toreros may have benefited from playing on their home court at Jenny Craig Pavilion in the West Coast Conference Tournament for both men and women.

So what? USD beat Gonzaga in each final … and the Toreros’ men and women are both in the NCAAs.

Try that for size, SDSU.

So what do the Aztecs have in basketball?

They have a men’s team ranked No. 4 and women’s squad ranked No. 6 going into this week’s Mountain West Conference Tournament in Las Vegas.

The men have little chance of winning and advancing to the NCAAs … the women even have less of a chance than that.

And to think that people have considered USD the other school in local college sports for so long!

USD: Fits right in with San Diego

Can you believe the University of San Diego’s baseball team was swept in the NCAA Regionals over the weekend?

I sure can.

Why?

It’s simple. USD is located in San Diego.

This is the same town called home by the Padres, who have lost in the first round of the National League playoffs each of the past two seasons.

The Chargers have lost their first postseason game while making the NFL playoffs two of the past three seasons.

Then there is San Diego State, which has never won an NCAA Tournament basketball playoff game or a Division I football bowl game!

USD joined the crowd by becoming only the fifth team to lose its first two games as the No. 1 regional seed in the past nine years.

If the Toreros ever want to do anything in the postseason, they’ll have to do the impossible for a school called USD: Move from San Diego!